Saturday, March 2, 2013

WASHINGTON --
The Homeland Security Department released from its jails more than
2,000 illegal immigrants facing deportation in recent weeks due to
looming budget cuts and planned to release 3,000 more during March, The
Associated Press has learned. More here:

Yes, a 2% reduction in planned spending="looming budget cuts." That's how it's presented by the media. Have you heard the media tell you it's only 2%? Or have you heard the media act like it's the end of the world? Exactly.

Here's what Charles Krauthammer has to say (in part.)

Hail Armageddon

Think about that. Worst case? That a government drowning in debt
should cut back by 2.2 percent — and the country survives. That a
government now borrowing 35 cents of every dollar it spends reduces that
borrowing by two cents “and nothing bad really happens.” Oh, the
humanity!

A normal citizen might think this a good thing. For
reactionary liberalism, however, whatever sum our ever-inflating
government happens to spend today (now double what Bill Clinton spent in
his last year) is the Platonic ideal — the reduction of which, however
minuscule, is a national calamity.

Or damn well should be. Otherwise, people might get the idea that we can shrink government and live on.

The Obama administration has every
incentive to make the sky fall, lest we suffer that terrible calamity —
cuts the nation survives. Are they threatening to pare back consultants,
conferences, travel and other nonessential fluff? Hardly. It shall be
air-traffic control. Meat inspection. Weather forecasting. More here: